A MAGIC LANTERN EXHIBITION POSTER, early 20th century, an American magic lantern exhibition small poster or hand bill, together with a ticket for the exhibition: 'An evening's entertainment that is worth a college course, may save a doctor's bill,, and equal to a trip around the globe', 28 x 20cm...

ROYAL ACORN DAIRY, late Victorian, an impressive and highly detailed taxidermy diorama, with two squirrels at the kitchen table baking and a hedgehog knocking at the front door, details include a hand-painted backdrop, brass milk churns and, miniature mounted skulls on the walls, 93cm wide, 30cm deep, 73cm high...

STOATS, late Victorian, a detailed and well-presented John Cooper and Sons taxidermy diorama of two stoats, with one of the stoats killing a rabbit, mounted in a glazed bow-fronted case, 30 x 51cm The firm of Coopers flourished during the 19th, century and the first half of the 20th century, and is renowned for its mounting of fish trophies. Only rarely did the firm stuff mammals or birds, so...

FOUR AMERICAN FAIRGROUND ANIMAL SCENERY PANELS, c.1950, possibly from the musical Carousel, painted wood in the form of an ostrich, turkey, pig and cat, 182cm high (4) These are exact copies of Dentzel panels...

*HÉLÈNE DETROYAT (French, 1899-1951) A BEARDED LADY HOLDING AN OSTRICH FEATHER Signed and dated '32' l.l., oil on canvas 116.3 x 81.3cm Bearded ladies have long been popular showground entertainers; a notable recent example is the 2014 Eurovision, Song Contest winner, Conchita Wurst. *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot...

THE MOST DARING DANGEROUS DANCE EVER PERFORMED, a 1940s poster for the famous and sensational Marqueez and 'Her internationally famous Temptation Dance, the gold paint of which must not be worn on the human body for more than 20 minutes', 74 x 50cm...